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🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | A day after police across the country arrested some 2,000 gender queer jihadis of the campus |
0:06.4 | intifada, President Joe Biden is ready to take a stand on the major political crisis that's already over. |
0:14.0 | In fact, peaceful protest is in the best tradition of how Americans respond to |
0:19.7 | consequential issues. |
0:21.6 | But, but neither are we a lawless country. |
0:25.0 | We are a civil society, an order must prevail. |
0:30.0 | Throughout our history, we've often faced moments like this because we are a big diverse free thinking and freedom-loving nation |
0:37.6 | And moments like this are always those who rush into score political points But this isn't a moment for politics. It's a moment |
0:46.3 | for clarity. So let me be clear. Peaceful protest in America. Violent protest is not protected. Peaceful protest is. It's |
0:56.6 | against the law when violence occurs. Destroying property is not a peaceful |
1:01.0 | protest. It's against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, |
1:07.0 | shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations. None of this is a peaceful protest. Threatening people, |
1:14.9 | intimidating people, instilling fear in people, is not peaceful protest. It's |
1:19.8 | against the law. My favorite line, this is not a time for politics, it's a time for clarity. |
1:26.9 | Usually my politics is about obfuscation. |
1:29.9 | Usually my politics is about avoiding the issue, but now it's time for clarity. |
1:35.9 | It's not time. |
1:36.9 | Protest is not about politics. |
1:38.6 | What are you talking about? |
1:39.4 | Now to give the dotered his doe, this is probably the best way Biden could have handled it. |
1:45.2 | Wait until it looks like everything is resolved, then prevaricate with a |
1:50.6 | special wink to the political establishment. |
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